EditorialCovered cup with Chinese figures, a go-plate and inscriptions, Cover of porcelain cup with a stepped wall, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. The lid with the same kind of decoration as the dish, with two other peop...
EditorialNameplate associated with Bartholomeus van der Helst's 'Schuttersmaalmaal', The nameplate is a rectangular plate of black painted wood, with a lobe pattern frame that divides the plate into three compartments. On the nameplate are the names of the peop...
EditorialChrist shown to the people (Ecce Homo) Passion of Christ (series title), Pilate shows Christ to the people who have gathered in the marketplace in front of a large building. A soldier pulls Christ's cloak aside. Christ is now half naked before the peop...
EditorialKameya no mae no sanno sai no yatai, Sanno Festival in front of Kame-ya Department Store., Katsukawa, Shunko, 1743-1812, artist, [between 1804 and 1812], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 38.8 x 26.3 cm., Print shows two women and a man and several other peop...
EditorialKameya no mae no sanno sai no yatai, Sanno Festival in front of Kame-ya Department Store., Katsukawa, Shunko, 1743-1812, artist, [between 1804 and 1812], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 38.8 x 26.3 cm., Print shows two women and a man and several other peop...
EditorialThe Prophets David and Isaiah, oil on canvas, 104.5 x 76 cm, unmarked., About the figures: DAVID., and ESAIAS., Bottom left: as God in the Word, the tru [e] bsal bewa [e] rt, wirtt in miner emptied, and emptied life - Bottom right: The sund of the peop...
EditorialThe third paragraph (dccxciii) describes the first Viking raid on Lindisfarne, Northumberland, and the omens that preceded it In present day English : ‘Here were dreadful forewarnings come over the land of Northumbria, and woefully terrified the peop...
EditorialFlat Stamp, 8th?12th century, Ecuador, Manteno, Ceramic, H. 2 in. (5.1 cm), Ceramics-Implements, Ceramic stamps, both cylindrical and flat, are thought to have been used to decorate textiles and/or the human body. They were made by many Ecuadorian peop...
EditorialThree Serpents (Tunjos), 10th?16th century, Colombia, Bogota and Tunja region, Guatavita Lake region, Muisca, Gold, H. 11/16 x W. 4 7/8 in. (1.7 x 12.4 cm), Metal-Ornaments, Depictions of snakes are frequent among the many animal tunjos the Muisca peop...
EditorialClassical figures and coins with allegorical representations of Africa, including a woman with an elephant-head helmet and cornucopia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Guilio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peop...
EditorialOrnaments of the Island Carib or Kalinago people, West Indies, including necklace, headdress, earrings, and weapons, bow, arrow and knife. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peop...
EditorialKameya no mae no sanno sai no yatai, Sanno Festival in front of Kame-ya Department Store., Katsukawa, Shunko, 1743-1812, artist, [between 1804 and 1812], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 38.8 x 26.3 cm., Print shows two women and a man and several other peop...
EditorialKameya no mae no sanno sai no yatai, Sanno Festival in front of Kame-ya Department Store., Katsukawa, Shunko, 1743-1812, artist, [between 1804 and 1812], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 38.8 x 26.3 cm., Print shows two women and a man and several other peop...
EditorialSailors filling a boat with barrels of water in New Ireland island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...
EditorialHouse of the first minister to the king, Sandwich Island (Hawaii), with guard and woman making various materials. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...
EditorialEskimo or Inuit man riding an animal-skin inflatable raft with oar and arrow, and eskimo huts with sled and dogs. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...
EditorialView of the Imperial Chinese garden at Gehol in Tartary. Taken from William Alexander's "Travels in China," 1804. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...